Second Earl Birkenhead Smith (4 results)

Condition: Good. 2nd edition. Cloth, G+. 319pp, b/w frontis, 11 b/w plates, 3 b/w illustrations, index, cloth rubbed, fore edges foxed, a reading copy. Keystone Library edition. The second volumes of the biography, by his son the 2nd Earl, of Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead [ 1872- 1930 ], for whom the peerage was created. He was a noted Conservative politician, one of the most highly paid barristers in the pre First World War period & was Solicitor General & then the Attorney General. He is however, perhaps better remembered as being Winston Churchill's closest friend until Smith's untimely death in 1930. Woods B21. 650 grams.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First US Edition; First Printing. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company Riverside Press Cambridge, 1962. First U.S. Edition, First Printing. 8vo. 400pp, Index. Maroon cloth, unworn, very good plus condition (brief glue residue on front and rear pastedown where tape removed), text block clean and fine; dj good (several short tears, some reinforced on inside of jacket with masking tape, cello tape repair to spine panel). Professor Lindemann was Churchill's intimate advisor concerning scientic matters, but Churchill also turned to him for information and counsel on many issues regarding conducting the war. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 400 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. Hardcover; 8vo; 572 pages. Blue cloth hardcovers with gil elettering on spine. Heavily rubbed edges. Small skew to binding. Bright and clean pages, binding slightly loose. In a grey jacket with black and red text. Sunned. Bumped/chipped edges. A little soiled. In a mylar jacket. VG-/G-. Book.